Two Southeast Texans today pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to produce child pornography in connection with a years-long operation in which a Louisiana man paid a Vidor woman thousands of dollars for pornographic images of her young children.

Federal officials searched a home in Orange County on Feb. 1 after receiving information from the Internet-based image-hosting website Photobucket that a customer had uploaded digital images from a cell phone that contained sexually explicit conduct of a young child and an adult.

Investigators determined that the adult in the photos was deceased, but that Reese had been paying the woman money for several years in return for digital pictures of sexually explicit conduct involving minor children.

The FBI searched Reese's Covington, La. home on March 12 where they found multiple child pornography images and videos, court records show. He was arrested on March 5 and indicted by a federal grand jury on March 21.

Court records show the Vidor woman received 734 money transactions totaling $751,139.74 from 2004 to 2012 from Reese.

Barron, Baldwin and Reece each face between 15 and 30 years in federal prison. Reese's plea deal would give him a 20-year sentence. Sentencing dates have not been set.